The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-09
The East.


Rev. W. 81. Morrison. A payment of
$500 has recently been made in its debt.
The pew rentals are sufficient to meet
expenses.-The church organization at
Portsmouth has been renewed. A new
quartet choir has been secured, and the
parish is doing we'll.
MISREPRESENTATION ntelli-
gence.-Ira A. Priest, of the last Divinity
class at Tufts, accepts call to Monson.
Sunday services and Sunday school at
Chelsea during the summer.-The Natick
parish, new organization, is hopeful.
It's new church will probably come this
Improvements and adornments
are to add to the attractiveness of the al
ways attractive church at East Cam
bridge. The work OF renewing the fresco
has begun, and all needful repairs will be
made. 1t is expected that the church
will be ready for occupancy by Septem-
Der. Our church at Spencer has been
greatly proepered during the year and
half of the pastorate of Rev. j. M. Bar
tholomew. Twenty-one members have
been added to the church; ten children
christened. Nearly a thousand dollars
have been raised through the agency of
the Ladies' Sewing Circle and the Young
Peoples Union.
Death of Rev. D. H. Plumb.
Rev. d. FL. Plumb, formerly of our min
istry, died Sunday morning, June 26, at
his home, Westfield, Mass. He had, reports
the Leader OF last week, been an invalid
for several years, and for the last few
months has been confined to the house.
The close was sudden, but peaceful, and
sweet will be the rest. The deceased
leaves a widow and six children. The
funeral services by Rev. J. Fl. Farnsworth
were to be on Tuesday, and delegations
from the Grand Army and the Odd Fell
lows we're to be present.
CONNECTICUT.-Th Long Ridge Par
ish is again without regular pastor, Rev.
J. Riley Johnston being called to give bis
full time on Nyack- on the-Hudson. The
meetings at Long Ridge go on as usual,
however, the pulpit being supplied for
the time by transient preachers.
annual session of the Quinnebaug Asso-
citation at Stafford was not largely at
tended, but the meetings were good as
usual, and the people of Stafford spared
no pains to make their guests feel at
home.-The Church of the Messiah, in
New Haven, has something to remember
and feel proud of III conn cotton with the
recent dedication Of the Soldiers monu-
ment. In the immense procession were
a series of thirty-eight vehicles elabor-
ately arranged to represent the different
States of the Union. 1t fell to the lot Of
our church, very appropriately, to repre-
sent the State of Massachusetts,, the era
die of freedom in this Western world, and
it was we'll done. Plymouth Rock and
the Pilgrims were faithfully represented
and attracted the special attention OF dis
tinguished visitors.
NEW YORK.-The best of feeling ex-
lists among the churches of Perry. Rev.
j. e. June, the Universalist clergyman,
on the occasion of the graduation of the
class from the Free Academy, preached
the sermon in the Baptist church. With
the speaker upon the platform were
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and
Catholic ministers. Children's Sunday
was very generally and deliberately cele-
brated by our churches in Western New
York. The baptisms were five in Lock
port, five in Leroy, one in Perry and
eleven in Auburn.-Mrs. Powell, wife of
Rev. G.W.Powell, is supplying the pulpits
in Indian Falls and Alexander. Her SER
vices are well attended and well received.
The new parsonage at Clarendon is
completed and the pastor and wife have
moved in. This is a remarkable enter
prise for SO small a parish, and highly
creditable to the pastoral energy enlisted
in the work.-The Genesee Association
met in Perry, Wednesday, June %.
PENNSYLVANIA. - The Young PeO-
pies Missionary Association, of the
Church Of the Messiah, Philadelphia,
gave the first one hundred dollars raised
at the late session of the Pennsylvania
Convention. The same association re-
Gently gave one hundred dollars to the
General Convention, to be expended for
foreign missions. The Association has
done excellent work the last year.-The
June meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Philadelphia Branch of the
Murray Grove Association was held in
the vestry room of the Church of the
Restoration, Philadelphia, Tuesday, June
81. The question of the ratio of repre-
sentation of the Branch in the Interstate
Association was discussed at some length.
The necessity of uniformity in this re-
spect, now that branches are being null
tiplied, was recognized and the propriety
of liberal representation acknowledged.
Finally, it was agreed to recommend the
sending of one delegate for every five
members of branch, the delegations to
be composed of both sexes.
Titusville.-The reception to Rev. A.
q. Hutchins, the retiring pastor of the
Universalist church, at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmor, Wednesday even
ing, June 20, was brilliant affair, and a
testimonial of the general esteem in which
Mr.. Hutchins is held by his parishioners.